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Francis Winter’s Last Farewell
In 1691, the lawyers of The Temple, itself a liberty, sought to block up a gate connecting it to Whitefriars. The Alsatians, seeing this as an impediment to their movements in and out of their sanctuary, raised a mob, attacked … Continue reading
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Laroon’s “Squire of Alsatia”
Marcellus Laroon was born in 1649 in the Hague, and brought to Britain by his father, an artist, around 1660. After serving an apprenticeship as a painter and working in Yorkshire, he settled in London around the mid 1670s, setting … Continue reading
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Tagged c17, gambling, illustration, language, laroon, squire of alsatia, swift
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